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For The Record: A note of thanks

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Staff

It was around this time last year that we made a commitment to begin publication of The Carrboro Citizen. And though it took until spring to gear up and actually start printing, this is a good time to thank the many people who have kept us going.

To start, on the back page of this publication you’ll find a heartfelt thank you to the many businesses, organizations and individuals who have helped sustain this paper by placing advertisements with our enterprise. Since this newspaper and its online counterpart are distributed free of charge — and since our approach to home delivery is as a courtesy, and the costs are roughly equal to what we charge — our sole source of support is through advertising.

So, study the list if you would, because these are the individuals and enterprises willing to take a risk to help build what we hope will always be a community institution of high regard and sustained altruism. We invite you to reward our advertisers’ spirit through the hiring of their services and the frequenting of their establishments. Should you find yourself not yet on the list and wish to join them, by all means ring us up.

We would also like to take this opportunity of a holiday, and thus more time to peruse the paper (perhaps you’re returning home for a visit and this is your first opportunity to see The Citizen), to thank the people and organizations who help us each week get the word out about life in our community. One of the more promising aspects of media in this age has been the increase in participation in the making of things. Were it not for the people who steadily commit their time to writing about their areas of interest and passions, this would be a dry publication indeed. A community newspaper is nothing without the presence of voices from its community.

So, a toast to those voices — to Ken Moore for taking us on a weekly foray into the world of native plants, to Frank Heath for taking on the ACC, to Jock Lauterer for his photos and insights, to Valarie Schwartz for keeping us up on our friends and neighbors, to Erica Eisdorfer for opening some good books, to Phil Blank for taking us places with brush and pen, to Sheila Neal for letting us know what’s at the Farmers’ Market, to the volunteers at APS and the Orange County shelter for their suggested adoptables and to Isaac Sandlin and Maciek Kryzsztoforski for a through-the-lens view of Carrboro and surrounding environs.

Add to this list the students from Jock Lauterer’s Community Journalism class (aka the Carrboro Commons) and Richard
Cole’s feature writing classes for their numerous contributions and efforts.

Thanks also to Michael McKinney, Bob Votta, Ron Liberti and Jacob Mader — the hardy souls who brave the streets of the Carrboro-Chapel Hill metroplex and make the trek to Pittsboro and Hillsborough to get the paper to your homes and to our 81 distribution sites.

And, finally, here’s to our staff, who each week join together in a collective effort to create the best possible assemblage of news, events, items of interest, discussion and dialogue. Newspapering may have seemed to change, but it is still the same blend of art, craft and science that it was a few hundred years ago and any paper worth its salt is still the product of a community effort. The Carrboro Citizen is your newspaper.

Thank you for the honor of its stewardship.

Happy Thanksgiving from Robert Dickson & Kirk Ross on behalf of the staff of The Carrboro Citizen

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